Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...startling innovation, and one which doubled Engine Charlie's value as an executive, was his introduction of a faithful, trusted alter ego. This was Deputy Secretary Roger Kyes, a hard-featured giant brought along from General Motors, where Wilson had originally hired him to get G.M.'s truck division out of the red. Wilson was boss and Kyes understood the boss. In the Pentagon, Wilson gave Kyes a free hand and Kyes, making no effort to build a personal empire, devoted his great competence to making Charlie Wilson a successful Secretary of Defense. Pentagonians were surprised to discover...
Fortress. In return for Ruckman's wrist watch and fountain pen, a Russian major lent them a truck to carry the salvaged parts back to Torun airstrip. To get the salvaged engine into place, Ruckman traded his own, non-G.I. revolver for the use of a hoist. By mid-March, Star Dust was able to limp to Italy, then back to England, where Ruckman rejoined his outfit and flew ten more missions, eight of them in Star Dust...
...Martinsville. Ind., after the city council decided against insuring its new $14,000 fire truck because it would "always" have the right of way, the fire truck hit the town's only police car, was wrecked...
Penknife Surgery. Pfc. Tully Cox of Altoona, Ala. was only 17 years old when the Reds shot him in both legs, then captured him, one day late in 1950. He was one of 20 men guarding a 40-truck convoy carrying some 800 U.S. wounded toward Hamhung. "The Chinese climbed up on the trucks," he said, "and sprayed burp guns into the wounded. Then they bayoneted them. The wounded were screaming. They couldn't do anything." Pfc. Cox assumed that most of them died. There were no medics at the first P.W. camp he went to. so two buddies...
...entourage numbers a dozen or more enthusiastic young Hindus, male and female, average age about 24, who stay three months to a year with him, so that the membership is constantly changing. Some disciples usually precede him to the next village, to announce his arrival from a sound truck and to see that everything is in order (including latrine-digging, if a big crowd is expected). The only permanent member of the group is Damadar Das, 38, who joined Gandhi at 18 and became Bhave's secretary after the Mahatma died. Damadar Das mails copies of Vinoba...